Own Quotes

No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

You know, I'm the tough guy with taste, good friends, you know, describe me that I'm the tough guy, period, the way others do. But, you know, I'll tell you, I'm a complete wuss when it comes to my own kids.

In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

I have an underdog spirit in me, and now it feels weird to kind of get my own way more often than not.

Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

I don't even own a TV because I think it's the devil.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

I don't want to believe my own hype.